I don’t know about y’all, but I love jumping inside Civil War photos. Not that war is fun, but it’s so interesting to see images from when photography was in its infancy, 155 years ago.
By the late 1850s, most American artists had switched from taking mainly portraits made with the daguerreotype process to large glass-plate negatives (allowing them to capture entire scenes) that combined the clarity of the daguerreotype and the endless reproducibility of paper-print photography (metmuseum.org).
And aren’t those two little boys dressed as soldiers just precious? I bet that was a sight for them to see. I wonder if the taller one enlisted, a few years down the road.
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From what I have read he could have been a drummer or flag carrier right then.
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That makes sense.
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Yes, I think they’re already enlisted too. Amazing that these photos exist. And wonderful too!
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Well, the book they came out of said they were “kids dressed like soldiers” but how would they know for sure? Gosh, I hope they weren’t enlisted. So little.
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I love this picture Kerbey! Surprised the girls have short hair, or is it up? ❤
Diana xo
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Hard to tell, right? They look like girls dressed as women, and the boys dressed as men. Playing in dirt instead of on their phones…
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Playing in the dirt is the best part of the picture! Poor kids today, I say.
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Just so you know, my son went out an hour ago to play with the neighbors in the street, and I have no clue where he is now, but I know he’s not looking at a screen.
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lucky kid!
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